President Donald Trump's reluctance to restart hostilities with Iran appears to have only given Tehran leverage.
And even as hostilities intensified over the last 24 hours, Trump has been almost begrudging about being dragged back in.
But the clock is ticking for Trump as the midterm elections approach and the GOP increasingly feels the heat over the war's economic costs.
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President Donald Trump is nothing if not studied at crafting elaborate alternate realities.
